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title: "How to transfer and edit my Private Settings?"
slug: "how-to-transfer-and-edit-your-private-settings"
updated: 2025-12-25T10:41:27Z
published: 2025-12-25T10:41:27Z
canonical: "support.controlup.com/how-to-transfer-and-edit-your-private-settings"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# How to transfer and edit my Private Settings?

As long as you work in the same ControlUp organization, you can share some settings with other users.

Public configurations are shared via the cloud servers or LDS server (on-premises mode), such as stress settings, trigger settings, and agent settings etc.

Private configurations can be shared manually, such as column order, width and height. These configurations are saved in two local XML files, under **%AppData%\Roaming\ControlUp\Configuration**

Note that by copying these files to another user machine, the credentials are encrypted and not shared.

**File 1: *CommonPrivateConfiguration.xml***

You can edit the configurations of the following fields, as detailed in the table below:

- **AD Connections Store**
- **Key Chain Configuration**
- **Main View Preferences**
- **Form Size**
- **User Preferences**
- **Instructions**
- **Event Log Filter**
- **SMTP Collection Settings**
- **Proxy Settings**
- **Uninstall Agent Option**
- **Agent Advanced Settings**

| **Field Name** | **Default Value** | **Description** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ADConnectionsStore |
| IsPrimary | false | Set Active Directory (AD) connection to primary |
| IsTenant | false | Set AD connection to tenant |
| IsAssociatedWithDeletedSite | false | Associates AD connection with deleted site |
| KeyChainConfig |  | Private credentials store |
| MainViewPreferences |
| HideNavigationBar | false | Show/Hide Navigation Bar |
| HideNavigationHistory | false | Show/Hide Navigation History |
| ShowSystemSessions | false | Show/Hide System Sessions |
| AllowGrouping | false | Enable Grouping |
| HideComputersDomain | false | Show/Hide machine’s domain |
| HideActionsPane | false | Show/Hide Actions Pane |
| HideConfigurationErrorBalloon | false | Show/Hide Configuration Error Balloon |
| HideDisconnectedComputers | false | Show/Hide Disconnected Computers |
| ShowParentGridView | true | Show/Hide Show Parent Grid View |
| HideComputersWithErrors | false | Show/Hide Computers With Errors |
| ShowPoweredOffComputers | true | Show/Hide Powered Off Computers |
| HideUnmanagedVMs | false | Show/Hide Unmanaged VMs |
| HideUnmanagedSessions | false | Show/Hide UnmanagedSessions |
| CollapseActionsPane | false | Collapse Actions Pane |
| CollapseRibbon | false | Collapse Ribbon |
| HideAddXDSite | false | Show/Hide AddXDSite |
| FormSize | false | Configure Console screen sizes |
| UserPreferences |
| EventsRetentionPeriod | 60 minutes | Events Retention Period (under **Events Pane Settings**) |
| AutoConnectInterval | 5 Minutes | Reconnect to computers automatically after X minutes (under **Agent Deployment Settings**) |
| Instructions | false | Set password for instructions configuration |
| EventLogFilter |
| SmartEventFiltering | true | Frequent event automatic filtering |
| EnableApplicationHide | false | Hide application in Console |
| EnableMonitoring | OnlyWhenMinimized |  |
| LogMonitorEvents | false |  |
| DisableShowNotificationFilter | false | Disable Show Notification Filter in Console |
| PlaySoundAlerts | true | Play Sound Alerts in Console |
| SMTPServerSettingsCollection |
| IsSMTPOn | true | Enable SMTP Server settings |
| ConfigurationVersion | 1 |  |
| ProxySettings |  | Proxy settings for Console connection |
| RemoveAfterUninstallArgs |
| RemoveAfterUninstall | true | Agent will be uninstalled when not used |
| AgentAdvancedSettings |
| IsActiveMode | false | Regulate Information updates |
| UpdatesIntervalInSec | 3 | Data Collection Cycle |
| UpdatesConcurrency | 100 | Maximum Concurrent Transactions |
| ProcessDisabled | false | Disable Flat Views |
| SuggestPOD | true | Disable Processes View when limit passed |
| SuggestPODLimit | 100000 | Limit for disabling Processes view |

**File 2: *OrgID_PrivateConfiguration*** In this file, you can edit the following column configurations for each view separately:

- **Folders**
- **Hosts**
- **Computers (Machines)**
- **Sessions**
- **Processes**
- **Accounts**
- **Applications**
- **Storage**
- **Events**

If you decide to edit a view, change **only** the **Width** and **Visible** fields:

![computers table showing fields](https://cdn.document360.io/098100b7-b9da-4bea-b4b9-017140ab863e/Images/Documentation/115006196325132213.png)

After you edit each file, save it. To share a file, copy it to another user's machine, to the same location as described above.